Big Shanghai Buffet was open at the corner of Meade Street and Northland Avenue for about 14 months. / Maureen Wallenfang/Post-Crescent Media

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Maureen Wallenfang

Post-Crescent Media

Big Shanghai Buffet at 2731 N. Meade St., at the corner of Northland Ave. in Appleton, is locked up and has a sign on the door that reads simply “We closed.”

Its last day in business was Sunday, Mother’s Day.

The large, 220-seat Chinese buffet restaurant had been open a little over a year. Owner Ken Zhang and manager Mona Lee, husband and wife, were not reachable for comment.

The landlord at the Meade Street building said the couple was moving the restaurant back to its prior location, 1919 S. Calumet Street, at the corner of Oneida Street in Appleton.

“Their sales weren’t up to where they were making this (Meade street) location successful,” said landlord Clyde Stephenson. “They decided they were going to return to their previous location. They want to get it up and running soon.”

Stephenson said he was sorry to see the restaurant shut on Meade.

“They’re very good, honest people,” he said.

On Tuesday, it appeared that work was being done inside the Calumet street location. Big Shanghai had been in that building from Sept. 2003 to Aug. 2012.